Talks
From time to time, I give talks about stuff. If you found one of those talks interesting, you can see the slides and notes here. I've also probably uploaded the slides to my Speaker Deck page.
How to Save a Life for Electromagnetic Field 2024
You, Eleanor Shellstrop, are dead. You are in cardiac arrest. Your heart has stopped beating, you have stopped breathing, and medically speaking you have died. Not a great start to your day! But worry not: someone has called 999. This talk is the story of that 999 call.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Me for Queer Code London
Recently, I changed my name. In the words of Douglas Adams, “this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” This talk is a look at how sometimes when we are designing systems, we don’t think about every possible way in which they are going to be used—and how not thinking about that can have unintended but very negative consequences on the people we intend to use them.